A senior Hong Kong politician advised the US spying row whistleblower today to
leave the city or face extradition to America.

Edward Snowden outed himself last night as the person who leaked details of
the US Government’s secret surveillance operations, snooping on the e-mails
of non-US citizens around the world and on phone records.

Mr Snowden, 29, a former technical assistant for the CIA who was employed as a
contractor at the US National Security Agency, revealed that he had been
holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong for the past three weeks.